Thursday 17 October 2024

Thursday 17th October 2024

Smithpool Park

Yellow-browed Warbler still this morning but very elusive and mobile, (RGi)

Berryhill

Yellow-browed Warbler still, (NDP)

                                                                    By Clive Wood

Knypersley Resv

2x Red Kite over Lodge Barn road, Willow Tit, 5x Mandarin, fem Wigeon, Woodcock, (GBr)

Branston GPs

3x Spoonbill still, Marsh Harrier, 8x Great Egret (site record count), 5x Little Egret, Redshank, 4x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 13x Curlew, 142x Lapwing, Pintail, 133x Pochard, 38x Shoveler, 5x Gadwall, 54x Teal, 7x Egyptian Geese, 78x Little Grebe, 3x Common Gull, YL Gull, 2x GBB Gull, 2x Green Woodpecker, 8x Stonechat, Cetti's Warbler, 14x Chiffchaff, 8x Redwing, (JWo)

Chasewater

Rock Pipit at the dam, 12x Goosander and the Shag, (SWa)

Tittesworth Water

10x Mandarin, 2x Wigeon, 50x Teal, GBB Gull, 90x Redwing, (JOa, LH)

Belvide Resv

45x PFG at west end, 15x Great Egret, Lesser Scaup, 

Whitemoor Haye

2x Whooper Swan still along rough track, Marsh Harrier thru north at 17:30, 2x Great Egret, 7x Little Egret, 52x Pochard, 14x Wigeon, 25x Little Grebe, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (SCo)

                                                        Whooper Swans by Stu Collins

Waterhouses - Swinscoe

2x Red Kite at  13:30 and a Red Kite over Weaver Hills, (TDu)

Alvecote

Great Egret, Little Egret, 7x Little Grebe, (MSc)